News in Brief What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Normalizing’ Donald Trump A political science professor weighs in. By Jared Keller (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr) Ever since Donald Trump eked out… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Unknowns of Donald Trump’s Internet Policy The leaders of digital inclusion non-profits are scrambling to figure out what exactly they’ll be facing under a… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief What Family Planning Worldwide Might Look Like With a President Trump The president-elect’s stance on reproductive health makes a big difference to contraceptive access for people at home and… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Teens Against Fascism Experience and fully developed frontal lobes aren't what we're going to need to resist Trump. Malcolm Harris
News in Brief The Big Oil Allies and Beltway Insiders Leading Trump’s Department of the Interior — and How to… Prepare for four years of non-stop assault on public lands and wildlife. By Jimmy Tobias A dam spans… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Weighing War Over Taiwan in a Time of Trump Trump’s new administration is already effecting bold changes in Washington’s traditionally artful balance between Beijing and Taipei. Massoud Hayoun
News in Brief Can Donald Trump Remake the Face of American Public Education? Not as much as he might like. By Jared Keller (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) For many public school… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief ‘He Who Shall Not Be Named’: Even In Absentia, Donald Trump Overshadows COP22 How this year’s climate talks became an ongoing press conference directed at Donald Trump. Lucia Graves
News in Brief COP22 in Review: We’ll Work Until We Drown Berber-style tents in the Blue Zone at COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco, on November 17th, 2016. (Photo: Ted Scheinman/Pacific… Ted Scheinman
News in Brief What Are the Economic Costs of Deportation? A new paper quantifies how deportation could hurt the economy. By Dwyer Gunn A migrant farm worker harvests… Pacific Standard Staff